Russia's ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, lost about one third of its seats in the Moscow city assembly at the local elections held last Sunday, according to final data cited by Russian news agencies. Nevertheless, the party retained its majority in the assembly, and its candidates for regional governors won in St Petersburg and in 15 other parts of the country.

Political novice and presidential protege Oleksiy Honcharuk was appointed as Ukraine’s prime minister on Thursday, claiming that economic reforms aimed at accelerating growth would be the focus of his premiership.

Nearly 50,000 people took part in an anti-government rally in Moscow on Saturday, carrying placards with slogans such as "Give us the right to vote!" and "You've lied to us enough", while others held up pictures of activists arrested at earlier demonstrations. The move marked one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.

Polls have opened in Ukraine today, with voters electing a new parliament that could consolidate the power of country's new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and hand the former comedy star a stronger mandate for driving change in the war-scarred nation.

The leader of Georgia's ruling party says the ex-Soviet nation will hold the next parliamentary election based entirely on a proportionate system, fulfilling a key demand of anti-government protesters, news wires reported. Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream party, on Monday announced a "large-scale political reform". There will also be no threshold for parties to enter parliament, he said.

President Vladimir Putin has temporarily banned Georgian airlines from flying to Russia after anti-Russian protests flared in the former Soviet republic, rising tensions between the two countries. They were ignited on Thursday by the appearance of a Russian MP in the Georgia's parliament. According to the Friday decree, the flight ban will go in effect from 8 July and it would be accompanied by a repatriation of Russian citizens temporarily living in Georgia.

Four persons, among them the former leader of pro-Russian separatists in Donbass Igor Girkin were accused of murder owing to shooting down of Malaysian airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in July of 2014, BBC reports.

Moldova’s newly appointed acting president Pavel Filip on Sunday dissolved parliament and called snap elections, as a political crisis rocks the ex-Soviet country, news wires reported. Filip signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling snap elections in Moldova for 6 September after the Constitutional Court on Sunday suspended pro-Russia president Igor Dodon and named Filip, who is the acting prime minister, as acting president.

Moldova’s parties on Saturday agreed to form a government and appoint Maia Sandu, a former education minister and World Bank adviser, as prime minister with a mandate to curb the power of oligarchs in one of Europe’s poorest countries, news wires reported. “Injustice has come to an end today in Moldova,” Sandu said. “Today begins the process of the purification of Moldova.”

Russia's ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, lost about one third of its seats in the Moscow city assembly at the local elections held last Sunday, according to final data cited by Russian news agencies. Nevertheless, the party retained its majority in the assembly, and its candidates for regional governors won in St Petersburg and in 15 other parts of the country.

Political novice and presidential protege Oleksiy Honcharuk was appointed as Ukraine’s prime minister on Thursday, claiming that economic reforms aimed at accelerating growth would be the focus of his premiership.

Nearly 50,000 people took part in an anti-government rally in Moscow on Saturday, carrying placards with slogans such as "Give us the right to vote!" and "You've lied to us enough", while others held up pictures of activists arrested at earlier demonstrations. The move marked one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.

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